Lyric Video Maker

A lyric video maker that does the syncing for you

The slowest part of making a lyric video has never been the design. It is the timing: scrubbing back and forth to find where each line starts, nudging a text layer by a few frames, and doing it again for forty lines. This lyric video maker removes that step. Upload the song, press auto-sync, and the lyrics come back already timed to the vocal — each line with its start time, and each word with its own timestamp so karaoke and word-by-word styles can follow the singer exactly.

If you would rather not use AI or credits, paste the lyrics, press play and tap Space each time a new line begins. Tap-to-sync is free and surprisingly fast: a three-minute song takes three minutes. Either way, every line stays editable afterwards, both the text and its start time, so a misheard word or a late entry is a quick fix rather than a redo.

Four styles in the lyric video maker

Karaoke sweep shows the full line and fills it with a highlight colour as it is sung, word by word when timings are available. Centered fade brings each line up in the middle of the screen with the next line waiting underneath, the classic look for YouTube lyric uploads. Bottom subtitles keep the background visible and put two lines at the bottom, like a music video with captions. Word by word builds the line as it is sung, popping each new word in — the style that works best on TikTok and Reels. All four include an opening title card with the song title and artist, shown until the first lyric arrives.

Backgrounds: gradient, your image, or AI

Start with one of five animated gradients, upload your album cover or a photo, or describe a scene and generate an AI background for one credit. Still images get a slow zoom so the frame never feels frozen, plus a soft dark overlay to keep the lyrics readable. If you have made a cover with the album cover generator, it makes a natural background for the lyric video too.

Rendered in your browser, exported as MP4

The video is encoded on your own device using the browser's built-in video encoder, so there is no upload, no render queue and no charge for exporting — make as many versions as you like. On recent Chrome, Edge and Safari the lyric video maker writes an MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio that YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and every editor accept. Where the browser lacks an H.264 encoder, it falls back to WebM. A three-minute song typically exports in under a minute on a laptop at 1080p; choose 720p for a faster render on older machines.

Already have synced lyrics? Run the song through the lyrics transcriber and use its lyric-video button — the timings carry straight over into the lyric video maker. For a performance-style clip instead of text on screen, try the AI music video generator.

Lyric video maker tips

• Fix the lyrics before styling: a misheard word on screen is more noticeable than a misheard word in audio.
• Use 9:16 and word by word for social clips; 16:9 and centered fade for full songs on YouTube.
• Pick a highlight colour from your cover art so the video and release look like a set.
• If a line appears late, type a slightly earlier start time — lyrics read better a beat ahead.
• Keep backgrounds calm. The lyric video maker darkens images, but busy photos still compete with text.
• Export a 720p draft to check timing, then the 1080p final.